As I mentioned in a previous post, I had planned to blog from China; however, because of some mysterious reason, I was unable to connect to this website. So, because I am a travel advisor, selling journeys on Earth and into Space, I now will offer a few comments I made in emails to friends about our recent journey to this amazing country: 

What a whirlwind few days! Went to the Forbidden City (where Emperor, concubines, and eunuchs lived but was “forbidden” to commoners), Tiananmen Square, a traditional hutong (house built around a courtyard and passed down through the generations, did site inspections at the St. Regis and Ritz Carlton, climbed the Great Wall (originally Chinese called it the Long Wall—actually several walls blended together when China unified in 221 BC), ate at a country-style Chinese restaurant (so delicious!!!), visited the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic venue, the Temple of Heaven, and a shopping area. We’ve been served wonderful meals—most of them have been “non” Chinese until today. The first day we had one mediocre Chinese meal and then all sorts of gourmet cuisine, French, Italian. Finally today we had both a Chinese lunch and dinner. Both were outstanding! Beijing is very modern, very clean, and, unfortunately very polluted. People have traded bicycles for cars. Also, lots of factories and coal-generated heat. Tomorrow we fly to Xi’an to see the Terra Cotta warriors, the largest mosque in China, a new excavation area, a new museum, and end up at the Shangri-La Hotel. Then off to Chongqing to board the riverboat for our brief few day Yangzi River cruise.Written on November 11, 2008

Smiling, confident, and toting my laptop I boarded the plane on November 7th enroute to Beijing. I could hardly wait to begin chronicling our journey through China. After settling in at the Peninsula Beijing, a superb hotel in a convenient location, I plugged in my laptop, found the wireless network and went to spacegoddess.net…almost!

You may have noticed that there are NO entries for our sojourn. Why? Because (I hope you’re listening, Mr. Blog host), I couldn’t connect to it from China! Hmmm, does China discriminate against Midwest USA bloggers? Is this some kind of Bush administration retribution (I bet you didn’t know I was that powerful!)? Perhaps a pro-Communist, anti-Zionist, isolationist, rightwing-leftwing, anti-female vendetta against travel advisors? Does my venting strike you as paranoid? I’ve told you countless times, “DON’T LISTEN TO MY ENEMIES!”

So, why couldn’t I connect to my blog? My best guess (feel free to correct me, Mr. Blog Host) is that I use WordPress and am connected through a circuitous route to my site that bypasses that wordy, long address ”spacegoddess.wordpress.com.yada.yada.yada”! Nah, that’s way too logical! I’m sure it’s those spinach eating, poison mushroom-growing post modern, victorian nihilists!